burrito

noun

The verdict

“burrito” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #66,020 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,020
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prato típico do México

Corpus desk

Index PT-burrito · burrito · Portuguese

burrito · rank #66,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,020
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH cacetada

Nearest frequency peer: cacetada (+4 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “burrito”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “burrito” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for burrito
PropertyValue
Headwordburrito
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#66,020
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “burrito” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.burritocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “cacetada” (#66,024), “biônico” (#66,009), “beluga” (#66,001). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “burrito” fica em #66,020. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

burrito is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #66,020 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "prato típico do México".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for burrito, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is burrito, spelled B-U-R-R-I-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    prato típico do México

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how burrito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Hoje, o burrito de carne custa R$ 8,90 no tamanho médio e R$ 12,90 na versão grande.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "burrito"?
"burrito" is spelled B-U-R-R-I-T-O.
What does "burrito" mean?
As a noun, "burrito" means: prato típico do México
What language does "burrito" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "burrito", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list